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20 January 2021
Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant
Right up until the last minute, the university seemed to be endlessly optimistic about how we could return this term for in-person teaching
6 March 2019
MPs have given themselves a 2.7% pay increase. It doesn't sound much, but for them it means a rise of over £2,000 a year - more than many members of civil servants' union PCS take home in a month.
13 December 2017
Uni market 'failure', two-year degrees - end cuts, scrap fees!
Less than a third of higher education students think their course offers value for money according to the National Audit Office. Its chief says universities would be accused of "mis-selling" if they were banks. This comes as no surprise!
8 March 2017
Historic demonstration in Barcelona in support of refugees
On 18 February, Barcelona held the biggest demonstration in Europe in support of refugees under the slogan "Volem acollir" (we want to welcome them).
8 March 2017
Sheffielders call for a no-cuts 'people's budget'
Around 40 local trade unionists and community campaigners discussed proposals for a no-cuts 'people's budget' ahead of Sheffield council's budget-setting meeting.
27 July 2016
Tories plan further fee hikes for uni students
The Tories want universities that meet their backbreaking 'teaching excellence framework' targets to be allowed to increase the cost of their courses with inflation. Universities including Manchester have already announced their fees will rise to £9,250 in 2017, before parliament has even considered the measure.
18 May 2016
The Tories plan to lift the cap on tuition fees and allow tech firms to establish private universities
30 March 2016
Capitalists anxious about anger against inequality are urging reforms to assuage bitter workers
2 September 2015
Students attacked from all sides
The UK's £75 billion deficit and £1.6 trillion debt were not caused by the disadvantaged, the poor, students or the working class, so why should we pay for a crisis we didn't create?
5 August 2015
Brief dispatches on the utter hypocrisy of bosses and their politicians.
8 July 2015
Migrants flee horrors created by capitalism
For the rich there are very few obstacles to migrating to Britain. It is altogether another story for the majority of those currently fleeing war, dictatorship and conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
18 April 2012
Welsh government slashes student grants
Grants for Wales's poorest and disabled students are being cut by 15% in real terms.
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Students drop out of college without EMA
In late 2010, as thousands of college students took to the streets against the vicious scrapping of weekly EMA payments for 16-19 year old students, the government insultingly labelled the grant as 'frivolous', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
2 November 2011
Spare no expense: Former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair together have claimed over £1.7 million in 'expenses' in the last five years...
26 January 2011
Stop the mental health service cuts
The funding of Mental Health Action Group Sheffield (MHAGS) is in jeopardy. We get our core grant from Sheffield city council, which plans to reduce the service down to one day a week...
5 November 2008
New Labour retreats on promises to students
When Gordon Brown took over as prime minister in July 2007 his promises to help students were met with a fanfare, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser.
2 October 2008
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Students from Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Oxford lobby John Denham MP , photo Ben Robinson |
20 September 2007
Student Socialist: Issue 5 out now!
Student Socialist: The Student Socialist is a magazine produced by Socialist Students for students who want to campaign and fight back....
20 December 2003
A living grant not tuition fees
Fight Fees: GOVERNMENT MINISTERS recently paid a company £180,000 to bombard potential undergraduates with text messages boosting their hated top-up fees policy...
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